The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-01-13
CURRENT TOPICS.


a soHu1lER, Neb., man ate eighty-six
oysters az cuo sitting
a BOY has. been born in Kansas with eyes
in the back OF his head.
A oopRD In Barren County, KY, holds
twelve and ~ hhn gallons.
MohMoS eldh-s are making many con.
verts in Eastera Mississippi.
TnI cold weather in Florida causes
alarm about the oange crop.
TnERE are l6J olorod men in Washing.
ton who are worii, Sl00OO each
ATExAspreacht predicts that tho world
will come TO an ens in ten years
LOUISIANA now AIpircs 10 be the great
hay-producng Statcof the Union.
THE new year opert>d bright with prom.
isos for the plumbers and coal dealers.
NEwY YoRK CiTr drinks Goo 200 barrels
OF beer every year, at cost of SIS 400 600
kansas ciTr claims TO have pcpulati.,n
cf 1900, and Including her huburbS 100.
600.
A cnroAn OF hickory PUTS mas been
shipped from Blseheld, @ic,i, 10 Califor.
mia.
Tnr rcd.nosed man. during tho recent
cold snap, was not regarded with suspi.
cion.
Is the Eos, tho ii. practically nothing
left OF tlie eustc' a OF siaking New Years
calls,
Tnr grave nd mouumcn, Of Oliver Gold.
neglect,
Mrs. <cCLrLiAS, widow Of tho General,
anu ~ daughter have gone 10 Italy for
the winter.
SE,'lToH KtSNA recently gave a dinner
III which he slsilifully carved whole
Frasted deor,
TnERR arc l4,l65 newspapers and period
icals Of all sorts published regularly In the
United States
A Nrw HAVEN Comm man has brought
suit for 5000 damages against widow
who fitted him.
TnERr are garlands OF fame waiting for
the man who shall invent millonaire's
viii that wills
KANSAS led all the States In the Union
last year in regard TO the number Of miles
Of railroad built
TiE reports from ten Southern States
show an increase IN tho iron output, since
1850, OF 5i5, 40 tons,
PRrsipESr cLEyELASp shook hands with
three Thousand persons at the New Years
reception Mt the White House,
THE cost Of postage stamps TO the Gov
ernmcnt, covering every thing, including
delivery, IS % % per thousand.
TnErM are signs that tho titho war in
Wales, 90 far from dying a natural death,
Is really gathering fresh yigor
TnH Italian people are about 10 erect a
monument 70 Gnribaldi on tho Janiculum,
in Rome, 10 cost 100000 francs.
HiRAN Il. REvEIs, the first colorcd man
elected 20 the United States Senate, is now
weil-to-do farmer in Mississippi.
Is no ono year since the beginning OF
our Govornment have so many prominent
Government officials died as In 1879,
n NEw YoRH physician braves the wrath
OF society by declaring that scalshn
aAcqucs are very unhealthy garments.
FnoN faraway Egypt il is announced
that Ksssala has been relieved. This Is
cheering We trust Kassala is better now,
AcoonpiSe TO the dispatches OF the past
few days, tho leading question seems TO
have been: "Has Secretary Lamar lost his
Holtw
AIM cuMNiSosn will be ablo 10 study
The ,Poiito Letter Writer behind the bars
Mt the Missouri Pcntontary for the next
.avo, yoars
Iris reported that en,erprisine farmers
IN KANSAS have sent 10 Alabama for cotton
seod 10 experiment with the great staple
n their climate
Moy,nris ,omb IA ns unknown as that OF
Mn.es pu, bIs monument will be placed
na~, o. ,ho ,ombs of Schubert and Bee.
thovon. AZ Vienna.
Tu 81. Louis Repubiioda says that Il is
mot exactly the fair thing that Michigan
should have three United States Senators
Jones should resign.
Tnr last book that General Logan road
was the biography Of General r. L. Leo
Ho finished the book the day before his
fatal sickness began.
Lonp TESSYsoS persists in his determi'
nation to write poem to the Battcnberg
baby. All England sccms to be down on
the poor little princclet
DREssMAKKRs of New York complain OF
their long hours and low wages, ana ae
nouncc the ''bargain counters as among
tho causes Of these evils.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAS vigorously pro
tasts nRainst violation by the Illinois